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MSM for Consumer-oriented Ambient Intelligence
Valérie Issarny, Arles Research Team,
INRIA Ongoing work as part of the OZONE IST
Project
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Ambient Intelligence

• Enhancing the quality of life by offering
  relevant information and services to the
  individual, anywhere and at anytime
• Putting the user in the foreground and the system
  in the background
• Combining
• Intelligent aware interfaces
• Ubiquitous networking
• Ubiquitous computing

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Intelligent Aware Interfaces

• People perceive the system as intelligent
• Automatic adaptation to their personal
  preferences
• Natural way of interaction through, e.g., speech
• The system reacts to the presence of people,
  their location and their activities instead of
  waiting for the next anonymous keystroke or mouse
  click

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Ubiquitous Networking Computing

• Useful, pleasant and unobtrusive presence
  everywhere at home, en route, in public spaces,
  in the car, at work and wherever else the
  electronic support of our environment extends
• The network and computing facilities are
  distributed and accessible in wide varieties as
  needed

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The OZONE Ambient Intelligence Scenarios

• OZONE IST Project
• Offering a generic framework to enable
  consumer-oriented ambient intelligence
  applications
• 32 months project, started November 01
• 7 partners
• PHILIPS (coord.), INRIA, TMM, EPICTOID, IMEC,
  PRF, TU/E
• 9 INRIA research teams
• Focus on consumer-oriented ambient intelligence
• Accessing naturally, freely, anytime, anywhere,
  the multimedia content that is available at home
  and on the Internet
• Feeling at home everywhere

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Feeling at Home Everywhere
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Requirements

• Supporting access to services from light-weight,
  low-power to high-performance terminals
• Exploiting the various network protocols and
  infrastructures that are available
• Support for user interactions allowing
• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Multi-modality
• Managing user profiles
• Enforcing security privacy

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Requirements (Contd)

• Managing multimedia content to allow
• Access to and delivery of video, audio, text,
  image, and graphics
• Situation-sensitive delivery of multimedia
  content
• Negotiating quality of service
• Managing services and content to allow
• Access to services content delivery on any
  (mobile) networked device, including from one to
  another
• Situation-sensitive discovery, composition and
  delivery of services that are available in the
  local- and wide-area
• Replication of content over devices, while
  ensuring coherency
• Need for a supporting middleware infrastructure

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Middleware for Ambient Intelligence

• Development support towards assisting the design
  and implementation of robust ambient intelligence
  systems
• Configuration-based development
• Mobile agent technology
• Core middleware infrastructure enabling the
  implementation of distributed applications and
  services that may be requested by users in
  various situations, and involve services from
  various locations.

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Key Middleware Functions

• Core message broker
• Naming, discovery lookup
• Retrieving the optimal service content
  according to the users situation
• Local caching
• Improving performance and managing coherency
• Dynamic networking
• Managing service configuration, service
  composition groups of peers
• Resource monitoring
• Monitoring local resource availability for
  reserving, negotiating, and adapting resource
  usage
• QoS management
• Managing adaptive QoS delivery of streams

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Some of the Challenges

• Core middleware infrastructure
• From Web Services to situation-sensitive service
  composition in mobile environments
• Naming, discovery lookup
• Situation-sensitive discovery of services based
  on declarative specification
• Local caching
• Situation-sensitive replication coherency
  management
• Dynamic networking
• Creating and managing secure, dynamic networks of
  services
• Handling continuous media
• Dedicated middleware support, based on
  proprietary solutions, for the delivery of
  streams

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For More Information

• OZONE
• http//www.extra.research.philips.com/euprojects/o
  zone
• ARLES
• http//www-rocq.inria.fr/arles/work/work.html